Articulating Space: Short Essays on Poetry

by Jessica S. Smith

Composed between 2000 and 2006, these short essays on poetry and poetics straddle the genres of traditional academic essay and manifesto. They include analyses of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetics (Andrews, Bernstein, DuPlessis, Hejinian, Howe, McCaffery, and Silliman) and poetry by Modernists Eliot, Stein, and Zukofsky; 19th Century poets Browning, Rossetti and Shelley; and contemporary poets Cecilia Vicuña and Christian Bök. Spinning 200 years of poetry and philosophy, Smith weaves a theory of the concomitance of space and time in language.

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First published November 1, 2011

About the author

Jessica Smith, founding editor of Foursquare and name magazines. She has authored numerous chapbooks and three full-length books of poetry, Organic Furniture Cellar (Outside Voices), Life-List (Chax Press), and How to Know the Flowers (Veliz Books).